On Aug 23, 2009, at 20:54 , eactiv...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 8/22/2009 5:59:40 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
m...@robertstech.com writes:
Any suggestions from the teeming millions of the PDML much
appreciated.
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Mark Roberts
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I've always kind of wondered what teeming meant. Makes me think of
an ant
hill.
Marnie :-)
teem 1 |tēm|verb [ intrans. ] ( teem with)be full of or swarming
with : every garden is teeming with wildlife | [as adj. ] ( teeming)
she walked briskly through the teeming streets.ORIGIN Old English
tēman, tīeman, of Germanic origin; related to team . The original
senses included [give birth to,] also [be or become pregnant,] giving
rise to [be full of] in the late 16th cent.
teem 2 |tim| |tiːm|verb [ intrans. ](of water, esp. rain) pour down;
fall heavily : with the rain teeming down at the manor, Italy seemed a
long way off.ORIGIN Middle English : from Old Norse tœma ‘to
empty,’ from tómr ‘empty.’ The original sense was ‘to
empty,’ specifically [to drain liquid from, pour liquid out] ; the
current sense (originally dialect) dates from the early 19th cent.
Joseph McAllister
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